Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

scottishchambers.org.uk

HOME - Scottish Chambers of CommerceScottish Chambers

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

569 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

scottishchambers.org.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Scottish Chambers content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about scottishchambers.org.uk

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce provide business support, business policy and mentoring to scottish businesses across 26 member chambers in scotland.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Scottishchambers.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 569 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

scottishchambers.org.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,540 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.scottishchambers.org.uk

569 ms

gtm.js

187 ms

4f6bu.css

170 ms

absb8.css

304 ms

font-awesome.min.css

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Scottishchambers.org.uk, 10% (12 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 9% (11 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Scottishchambers.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 385.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Scottishchambers.org.uk main page is 2.3 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 88.5 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 90.6 kB
  • After compression 16.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 14.8 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 88.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 216.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Scottish Chambers needs image optimization as it can save up to 216.9 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 59.6 kB

  • Original 228.7 kB
  • After minification 228.6 kB
  • After compression 169.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 59.6 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 83.5 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 63.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Scottishchambers.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.5 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (66%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

39

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Scottish Chambers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

scottishchambers.org.uk accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

scottishchambers.org.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

scottishchambers.org.uk SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Scottishchambers.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Scottishchambers.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Scottish Chambers. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: